page_title: Noel, Nova Scotia
section_title: Acadians
hierarchical_section_title: Noel, Nova Scotia / Acadians
caption_attribution_description: English: Captain Daniel Lienhart de Beaujeu, circa 1750. Beaujeu was an officer garrisoned in New France. He was killed at the beginning of the battle of the Monongahela on 9 July 1755. Français&#160;: Capitaine Daniel Lienhart de Beaujeu, vers 1750. Beaujeu était un officier en Nouvelle-France. Il a été tué au début de la bataille de Monongahela le 9 juillet 1755.
context_page_description: Noel is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipal District of East Hants, which is in Hants County, Nova Scotia. The community is most well known for being named after its most prominent resident Noël Doiron and for ship building in the nineteenth century. Noel Doiron is the namesake of the village as well as the surrounding communities of Noel Shore, Nova Scotia, East Noel, Noel Road, Nova Scotia, North Noel Road, Nova Scotia. The earliest recorded reference to the community of "Noel" was by surveyor Charles Morris in 1752. Prior to that date, the area is referred to as "Trejeptick", which first appears in the Colonial Office minutes of Annapolis Royal in 1734. Noel was also the home of the Osmond O'Brien Shipyard.
context_section_description: The community of Noel was named Trejeptick by the Mi'kmaq which is believed to mean "worn rocks" after the eroded sandstone cliffs and sea stacks. The Acadian Noël Doiron settled in the community around 1710 with his family and lived there for forty years, leading English surveyors who first mapped the village to name it after him. During that time Noel Doiron and others in the Noel Bay built a chapel at Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia, eight dwellings and dykes that are still there to this day.  During this time, the village of Noel was in the middle of a war zone between New England and New France fighting to maintain control over Acadia.  Upon his return from the New France victory in the Battle of Grand Pré (1747), military officer Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu stopped into Noel to tend to his wounded soldiers. Liénard de Beaujeu is the first recorded visitor to the village.
  At the beginning of Father Le Loutre's War, Noel Doiron and many others joined the Acadian Exodus from mainland Nova Scotia to the French colony of Ile St. Jean (i.e., Prince Edward Island). Noel was accompanied by the Acadians in Selma, Nova Scotia and Maitland, Hants County, Nova Scotia. Noel specifically settled Pointe Prime, Ile St. Jean (present day Eldon, Prince Edward Island). However, after the British occupied Ile St Jean following the Siege of Lousibourg in 1758 they deported Noel Doiron and the former Noel residents in the Ile Saint-Jean Campaign of the Expulsion of the Acadians. Their deportation ship the Duke William sank on December 13, 1758 en route to France.  At least three hundred and sixty Acadians, including Noel and most of his extended family, perished.  The sinking of the Duke William is one of the worst marine disasters in Canadian history (as measured by Canadian lives lost)—see List of disasters in Canada by death toll. According to the Captain of the Duke William, William Nichols, Noel Doiron was "head prisoner" aboard the doomed vessel and was described as the "father of the whole island", a reference to Noel's place of prominence among the Acadian residents of Isle St. Jean (Prince Edward Island). For his "noble resignation" and self-sacrifice aboard the Duke William, Noel was celebrated in popular print throughout the 19th century in England and America.
caption: First recorded visitor to Vil Noel (1747): Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu
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